Country Director

**Job Summary:**

The Country Director provides strategic leadership for Feed the Children’s Tanzania portfolio, driving high-impact, evidence-based programming that advances child wellbeing, food security, nutrition, and community resilience.

The role is responsible for the overall leadership, growth, quality, and sustainability of country programs, ensuring strong integration between program strategy, operational excellence, financial stewardship, and organizational accountability. The Country Director champions program innovation, adaptive learning, and strategic partnerships while positioning Feed the Children as a trusted partner in Tanzania.

As the organization’s senior representative in-country, the incumbent leads engagement with government, donors, communities, and strategic stakeholders to strengthen impact, influence policy dialogue, and expand sustainable programming.

**Works Directly with:**

- **Regional Leadership** – Strategic alignment, performance oversight, and decision-making support
- **Programme Teams** – Technical guidance, program design, and quality assurance
- **Finance Team** – Budget oversight, financial reporting, and compliance
- **HR Team** – Workforce planning, employee relations, and organizational development
- **Country Senior Management Team (SMT)** – Day-to-day leadership, coordination, and execution of country strategy
- **Safeguarding / Compliance Functions** – Risk management, investigations, and policy adherence

**Supervisory Responsibility**

The Country Director has overall leadership and management responsibility for the Tanzania Country Office programs and provides direct supervision to the senior

leadership team. S/he also has indirect supervisory responsibility to all country office staff. across program and support functions, project staff, consultants and short-term technical advisors

**Principal Responsibilities:**

**1. Strategic Leadership & Direction**

- Drive evidence-based program design and adaptive management approaches that improve outcomes for children and communities.
- Ensure programs are technically sound, integrated, scalable, and responsive to emerging humanitarian and development needs.
- Promote innovation and continuous learning through strong Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) systems.
- Ensure effective use of program data, evaluations, research findings, and community feedback to inform decision-making and program improvement.
- Strengthen program sustainability through localization, systems strengthening, and community ownership approaches.
- Provide leadership oversight to technical teams across sectors including school feeding, education, livelihoods, nutrition, WASH, and community development.
- Ensure safeguarding, gender equity, inclusion, and child protection principles are embedded across all programs.
- Drive program quality reviews and ensure implementation excellence across all grants and projects.

**2. Program Quality & Impact**

- Lead the strategic direction, quality, and performance of the country programs, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and Tanzania’s development context.
- Drive evidence-based program design and adaptive management approaches that improve outcomes for children and communities.
- Ensure programs are technically sound, integrated, scalable, and responsive to emerging humanitarian and development needs.
- Promote innovation and continuous learning through strong Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) systems.
- Ensure effective use of program data, evaluations, research findings, and community feedback to inform decision-making and program improvement.
- Strengthen program sustainability through localization, systems strengthening, and community ownership approaches.
- Provide leadership oversight to technical teams across sectors including school feeding, livelihoods, nutrition, WASH, and community development.
- Ensure safeguarding, gender equity, inclusion, and child protection principles are embedded across all programs.
- Drive program quality reviews and ensure implementation excellence across all projects.

**3. Resource Mobilization & Partnerships**

- Lead fundraising strategy and execution, including donor engagement, proposal development, and diversification of funding streams.
- Identify and secure strategic partnerships to expand program reach and sustainability.
- Strengthen collaboration with national and local government structures to support sustainable and locally led development outcomes.
- Promote alignment of programs with national development priorities and sector strategies.
- Ensure strong donor stewardship and retention.
- Lead strategic positioning and pre-positioning efforts for new funding opportunities.
- Drive development of high-quality, evidence-driven proposals and concept notes.
- Identify opportunities for integrated and multi-sector programming.
- Build strategic consortia and partnerships to strength